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Iwaidja


Prof. Dr. Hans-Juergen Sasse

Linguist, Institut für Linguistik, Universität zu Köln (Germany)

Project Co-coordinator.



Associate Professor Nick Evans

Reader in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne (Australia)
 
Project Co-ordinator, an anthropological linguist specializing in Australian Aboriginal languages.




Dr Linda Barwick

Honorary Fellow, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Music, University of Sydney (Australia)

Director of PARADISEC (Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures)


Musicologist who has undertaken fieldwork in Australia, Italy and the Philippines. Within the project, she is responsible for documentation and analysis of songs and music in Iwaidja and associated languages.



Bruce Birch

Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne (Australia)

Principal Field Linguist. He is completing a doctoral thesis on aspects of prosodic structure in Iwaidja, and has been living and collecting data for the DoBeS Project in Minjilang, Croker Island, since July 2003.



Dr Murray Garde

Consultant linguist/anthropologist, Jabiru, Northern Territory.

Linguistic anthropologist, resident of western Arnhem Land for the past 15 years is working with Iwaidja speakers on topics relating to social organisation and land tenure.



Joy Williams

Teacher, Mamaruni School, Minjilang, Croker Island Speaker of Iwaidja, Kunwinjku, Maung, and English.

She can understand Marrgu well. She provides primary data, and is a co-transcriber and translator for the project. She also sources other appropriate native speaker consultants and assists with the organization of field trips.



Janet Fletcher

Janet Fletcher is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. She is a specialist in experimental phonetics with a particular focus on the interaction between prosody and segmental articulation.



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